Chapter 128 - No Fire(2)

Mogranius walked 15 feet away from Eric and using his index and middle finger on both hands to point, he raised them like guns, ready to burst fire from them to train Eric.

This is part of a custom training Mogranius specifically designed for Eric, to change his "i need to attack" mindset to a "I need to protect" mindset.

"Are you ready?"

Said Mogranius in a cold tone portraying a true battle mentor.

"I'm always ready!"

Said Eric slightly over confidently. He has trust in his abilities now. But fair to say, too much trust.

"Remember. Failing to protect one of the training dummies, will lead to you reading and memorizing half a book! So at your case. Failure is not an option."

No doubt being sarcastic, he pointed out Eric's inability to read books without falling asleep from boredom.

"Alright alright let's do this already."

Said Eric in a patientless and enthusiastic tone.

Using his fingers, Mogranius started blasting fire, aiming to hit the 3 training dummies Eric was protecting.

As agreed upon, the Fire would only cause a slight burn and it's impact wouldn't even be enough to bend the shield. He chose that specific Fire spell to avoid fatal training accidents.

This form of a Fire spell would be something of which most Witches or Wizards who just discovered their Fire Controlling abilities would be able to use. It is barely enough to start a campfire so King Michael wouldn't have to worry about replacing training dummies to constantly.

Starting off the Training, Mogranius blasted Fire out of his Fingers, and even though he was 15 Feet away from Eric, the fire floating on air took half a second to reach the Target.

Eric jumped horizontally in mid air with his shield up, in all aims to protect the lifeless training dummies, the fire almost missed the Iron Shield by an inch where it would meet Eric's belly area, but he escaped the Fire Burn and met with a different type of burn. The ground.

Even though his landing was even less smooth than the way he protected the training dummies, he still managed to protect them instead of blasting a Fire Tornado towards Mogranius. Which is fairly progress.

"Smooth landing."

Said Mogranius with sarcasm as he laughed at Eric who was covered in a dust cloud.

"As you can see. The training Dummies are in tact. And I am as well.

Sorta."

Rubbing his waist for a few seconds, Eric lifted his Iron Shield, showing he is ready for round 2.

"Hahahahaha!"

Laughed Mogranius with his mood increasing due to Eric's forms of protecting and swiftly added

"This round i will shoot two almost at the same time. Do you have what it takes?"

"I'm ready. Let the dance begin."

"Remember to use your head. Not brute force."

This time, instead of aiming to throw himself like a bag of wheat against the ground, he thought of a different approach because his Ribs weren't simply cut out for breaking his fall towards the dirty ground.

Keeping his body still, he chose to only move the shield where he can quickly think that the fire is going to hit instead of throwing himself.

and even if he fails to predict correctly, his body would increase the chances of preventing the Fire from hitting any of the training dummies.

It would be a 50% chance. If he raises the shield on the left, and the Fire doesn't approach anywhere near the left, there is a 50% chance of the Fire hitting Eric or the training dummy on the right side.

Being hit by the Fire would also increase a feel of being able to protect, just a bit more, which would also be beneficial to forming a new mindset as it would be considered "self sacrifice".

Raising his left Fingers Mogranius shoots Fire once and using his right fingers he shoots fire a quarter of a second later. Meaning Eric needs to think fast, twice.

By instinct, he raised his Iron Shield to the left which was able to prevent the first shot fired from hitting the training Dummy.

But he didn't manage to stop the second shot fire with his shield in time but however he did with his forehead.

"Ouch.

You said it wouldn't burn!"

"Alright that was not what I meant when I said "Use your head". And i said that it wouldn't hurt to much."

"Point taken."

"But the training dummy isn't damaged so i suppose you pass round 2."

"I'm already mastering your just discovered training technique. You have to step up your game old man!"

Said Eric in both aims to tease Mogranius and to speed up this training lesson, as it was fair to say that he didn't enjoy it.

"Is that so!

Shield up in that case."

Fearing that his mouth led him in trouble, Eric Swallowed his spit and raised his shield preparing for the worst.

Blasting Fire 3 times under 1 second, and then jumping & rolling to the left side about 8 feet away from his former position, he shoots 5 more times from the ground which even though a foot apart from each other, were heading in different directions and were all differently timed.

Stopping 3 with his shield, 4 with his body and one escaping him and just hitting the short wall behind the training dummy, Eric escaped this third round without risking reading half a book.

But he no doubt felt the burn and even almost had a rage outburst  because of it which could result in the town being in trouble due to a short or long outburst from a kid who can literally form Fire Tornados.

"You passed the third round. Although I'm not certain if you stopped half or all with your face this time."

With Sarcasm aimed Mogranius to tick off his mentee.

"None hit my face this time. I caught them all."

"Not all. One escaped. But it didn't hit the training dummy. Swiftly played kid. Now we aren't just done yet. We will continue up to round 30."

"If we go up to round 30, i will become as old as you when I finished the end of my bargain."

Said Eric indirectly complimenting Mogranius and no doubt finding his protecting limit from the last round.

"Technically i unleashed round 9 on you since you were being a loudmouth. Round 4 will be easier than the round you just withstood."

"In that case, I'm ready."